The saddest words: William Faulkner's Civil War
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©2020
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English
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"How do we read William Faulkner in the twenty-first century? asks Michael Gorra, one of America's most preeminent literary critics. Should we still read William Faulkner in this new century? What can his works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the Civil War, that central quarrel in our nation's history? These are the provocative questions that Michael Gorra asks in this historic portrait of the novelist and his world. Born in 1897 in Mississippi, Faulkner wrote such iconic novels as Absalom, Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury, creating in Yoknapatawpha County the richest gallery of characters in American fiction, his achievements culminating in the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. But given his works' echo of "Lost Cause" romanticism, his depiction of black characters and black speech, and his rendering of race relations in a largely unreconstructed South, Faulkner demands a sobering reevaluation. Interweaving biography, absorbing literary criticism, and rich travelogue, The Saddest Words recontextualizes Faulkner, revealing a civil war within him, while examining the most plangent cultural issues facing American literature today"--
Subjects
Subjects
African Americans
African Americans in literature
Characters
Criticism and interpretation
Faulkner, William
Faulkner, William, -- 1897-1962 -- Characters -- African Americans
Faulkner, William, -- 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation
History
In literature
Literature and the war
Race relations in literature
Southern States -- In literature
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Literature and the war
Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place)
African Americans in literature
Characters
Criticism and interpretation
Faulkner, William
Faulkner, William, -- 1897-1962 -- Characters -- African Americans
Faulkner, William, -- 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation
History
In literature
Literature and the war
Race relations in literature
Southern States -- In literature
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Literature and the war
Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place)
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9781631491702
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Literature and the war
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Race relations in literature
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African Americans in literature
Characters
Criticism and interpretation
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History
In literature
Literature and the war
Race relations in literature
Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place)
African Americans in literature
Characters
Criticism and interpretation
Faulkner, William
History
In literature
Literature and the war
Race relations in literature
Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place)
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